Posts by nbanker
Exterior Painting: What to Do with Doors, Shutters, and Trim
Sometimes, it’s time for a complete repaint of your home exterior. It’s a big project, but it gives such a great payoff! However, you don’t need to paint the whole house to give it a refreshing facelift. With a little bit of paint on your front door, the shutters, and/or the trim, you can have…
Read MoreFirst Impressions: A Painter’s Perspective
They say that you only get one chance to make a first impression. What do you think? Does that expression hold true in business? In friendships? In romance? A good impression does not guarantee a high-dollar sale or a successful romance, but it can definitely get things started in the right direction! On the other…
Read MoreChoosing an Exterior Paint Color Scheme
The outside of your house should be a reflection of who you are, the first impression you make to visitors and neighbors. However, choosing paint colors for your home exterior can be a challenge; if you make a bad choice, it will be very visible! That’s why we’re offering a little bit of guidance here…
Read MoreExterior Maintenance: Right and Wrong Ways to Deal with Wood Rot
Here in the Northeast, most of our homes have exposed exterior wood, whether that be the siding, the fascia, the stairs, the deck, the window and door frames, or all of the above! Additionally, most of our homes are likely, at some point, to experience symptoms of wood rot. Wood rot can happen because of…
Read MoreExterior Painting Checkup, and Other Spring Maintenance
After a long, cold winter here in New York and Connecticut, those of us who live here aren’t the only ones looking forward to spring and summer; your house also looks forward to a break! Those freezing winds, that snow and ice, all of it puts a strain on your home exterior. Even apart from…
Read MoreNeutral Paint Colors Don’t Have to Mean a Boring Paint Job
Does the idea of painting your home interior with neutral colors make your Boring Radar start buzzing? Do you start imagining drab corporate boardrooms or bland institutional hallways? That doesn’t need to be the case! There are good reasons to use neutral colors in your interior painting, but that doesn’t mean your house is going…
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